ACCEPTANCE OF OUR PRAYER REQUESTS
God's Domain
A YOUNG man had a feeling that though he keeps supplicating to God for solutions to his problems, they were not being answered and his problems were not being solved. He felt hopeless and helpless.
This man was one of many who prayed to God for material things and for solutions to economic problems. When such people see that their problems are not solved in the way they want them to be, they lose hope.
Supplication to God (dua) is a form of worship. The acceptance of these supplications—we must remember—depends on God’s will, not our desire.
If our supplications do not appear to be accepted, we must know that this is what God wills. God knows better what is good for His servants.
In this world, material things are like examination question papers. It is God who decides who will be tested with which examination paper. What we might prefer in this regard makes no difference whatsoever.
A student appearing for an examination cannot demand that the examination paper should be as he wants it to be. The paper is set not by him, but, rather, by the educational authorities. Likewise, the examinations that God sets for us in this world to face are decided by Him. We can’t expect them to be as we like.
Given this, we should continue to beseech God, turning to Him with our requests, but at the same time we should leave the matter of the acceptance of our prayer requests entirely to Him. If our supplications do not appear to be accepted, we must know that this is what God wills. God knows better what is good for His servants. Often, we are concerned only with our desires and do not really know what is truly good for us.
We should learn to willingly accept whatever God has given us. And as for other things, we should pray, “O God! Please give me what is best for me!”